Chobits: Chii…
Somewhere in Tokyo, a familiar looking figure strolling down the street, eyeing enviously of the loving couples holding each others hands with a happy look plastered on their faces.
"I wish Chii is still here with me." The lone figure sighed as he was talking to no one in particular.
Hideki as we last saw him nine years back is now twenty eight years old, currently working as a manager in one of the top corporate firms in Japan. He sighed as he recalled some memories of her.
/Flashbacks/
"Hideki, Hideki, Chii bake some cake for you to eat." Chii called out happily as she showed Hideki the cake that she baked specially for him.
"Hontou (Really) for me? Then I will dig in." Hideki replied as he took a bite of the slice of cake.
"Oishi (Delicious) neh, Chii you are great." Hideki spoke as he rubbed Chii's head very gently.
"Chiii …" Chii purred back in pleasure on Hideki's touch.
"Hideki, I have bought your yummies for you." Chii innocently informed Hideki as she showed him the porn magazine that she had bought.
Hideki saw the porn magazine; he blushed very furiously at the sight of it.
"Chii? Hideki don't like it?" Chii asked very innocently.
"No, I like." Hideki managed to reply back to Chii.
"Chii! Why are you wearing nothing but an apron?" Hideki squawked in surprised as he woke up from his fitful slumber trying to avoid an instant massive blood loss.
"Chii saw it from the yummies that Hideki keeps. You don't like it chii?" Chii asked with a puppy eyed look.
"No … er yes…" Hideki stuttered out. 'Damn! Screw these hormones…'
Hideki laughed out loud at that particular recollection, making people who were around him to quickly shun him immediately upon sight.
Hideki laughed for short while before letting out a loud sigh remembering the day that changed everything.
Six years back:
"Chii! What happened please wake up!" Hideki yelled as he found Chii slumped on the floor in a fetal position.
"Chii!"
At Hibiya's room:
"Ms Hibiya! Chii… What happened to her!" Hideki yelled after she completed a diagnosis scan on Chii.
"Hideki, I'm sorry … Chii's motherboard has burned out …" Chitose Hibiya managed to say before covering her mouth with her hand in sorrow.
"No … this can't be … CHIII!" Hideki howled at his loss, hugging Chii at the same time.
Ever since that day, he moved out the apartment, unable to bear to be reminded that she is no longer in existence. Chitose Hibiya even thou she respected his decision of moving out, but her eyes shone with sadness as she has lost her daughter again and forever. He even avoided the places that he and Chii had frequently visited to avoid the emptiness that invaded his life again and even took to drinking to avoid pain but only to be hit two times harder than ever. His friends, Shinbo, Shimizu, Minoru and Yumi, who heard of his plight tried to cheer him up by visiting him at his new place, but they could only stay there for a short while as they were very busy with their lives. Hideki didn't want to begrudge them of their personal time that he was cooking up false engagements to keep them from visiting him, but they got the hint not before extracting a promise from him to visit them.
He agreed to it but he kept the visits to them as rare as possible so that he will not take up too much time with them. They except Minoru even tried to set him up to various dates but to no avail. Hideki sighed as he turned to a familiar street as he looked at his present state.
"Sigh … back to square one no girlfriend the difference is that I'm much richer than before…" Hideki then let out a hard bitter laugh, sending passerby shunning him as he continued to walk on. "Whatever it is, like I have informed her sister Freya that I will always remember her in my heart even though she no longer exists." Hideki murmured quietly as he reached his intended destination.
"I have reached here, I heard from Yumi that she is having her first child and she and Manager are looking forward to it, guess it has been a long time since I passed Chiroru Bakery and that's where …" Hideki was cut short when he noticed there was someone in the Chiroru bakery carrying a tray full of pastries and placing the pastries at their respective places.
"Is that … Chii!" Hideki gasped as he dashed inside the bakery and hugged blond haired girl with the familiar ear muffs causing her to drop the tray that she was holding at the first place.
"Chii! Is that you? I have always missed you so much!" Hideki cried as he continued to hug the person very tightly, causing her to blush very violently.
"Ano (Err) … Do I know you?" the extremely red face girl asked Hideki, causing him to hold her in surprise, the girl removed the ear phone revealing a human ear.
Just then Yumi with a huge swollen belly and Ueda Hiroyasu came out the kitchen upon hearing the commotion.
"Senpai, you are here, we didn't expect you to be here. You must have met Haruno Chidori, she is our new employee." Yumi introduced them to each other.
"Gomen nasai (Sorry) for a moment I thought you were somebody whom I knew." 'Shit! Now she thinks that I'm a pervert!'
"Iie (No), it's just that I'm just wondering how you know my pet name. Those who are close to me normally call me Chii."
